Re: Fedora EOL Security Updates

[Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at> wrote:
> Scott Williams wrote:
>> only security patches with no intent to update functionality or add
>> hardware support for older versions.  Updates would likely come in
>> light monthly spurts, similar to EPEL's release cycle.
>
> Huh? Security updates pushed out only once a month? That doesn't sound like
> a good plan at all!

For users who care about security, that is certainly not going to be
optimal. However, he did qualify that with "likely" and "similar to
EPEL"

But from a bootstrapping a project that might be reasonable starting
point based on initial contributor interest.  If there is not enough
contributor interests to roll security updates faster than that... its
by far better to set expectations accordingly at the beginning..and
then as the project picks up steam, if it picks up steam, raise the
expectation bar based on what the contributors can do. There is a fine
line between setting expectations low enough to be achievable in the
near term and setting long term goals that will require resources
growth to achieve.  If users don't like the timescales, then they
won't use it.  What matters most is that they don't over promise on
what the repository will provide.

-jef